Season 2 - Week 2 Open

Week 2 is now open.  I will advance the week on Sunday (10/6).

Please note that I am out of town this weekend (starting Friday Night) so unless the games are all played by Friday afternoon, the advance won't be until late Sunday even if all the games are done between Friday night and Sunday afternoon.

Illinois is absolutely humiliated by Alabama, 31-0

Central Pennsylvania Reigns Supreme: Philly Still a Shithole

In a battle to determine which part of the state was less shitty, Penn State defeated Temple 43-23 in the Nittany Lion home opener. Squeezed between a plethora of redneck, blue-collar towns, 100,000+ drunk college kids and 45 year old alcoholics braved the harsh rainstorms of the afternoon and came out to Beaver Stadium for an excuse to get bombed.

As usual, Penn State allowed Temple to score almost immediately as Temple scored 1:30 into the ball game for an early lead. Penn State's offense responded sharply, dicing the Owls defense for two 1st quarter scores on passes to Allen Robinson and Kyle Carter, the two leading touchdown grabbers from last season.

Penn State extended their lead further after freshman Justin Butler took a handoff and went 33 yards for a TD, making it 21-7. Temple and PSU exchanged touchdowns before half, going into the locker rooms at 28-14. 

Penn State took their foot off the gas in the 2nd half after another touchdown by Robinson to open the 2nd half. Temple's white QB, who is apparntly a relative of Usain Bolt, ran 88 yards for a TD but it was all too late. Temple would add a safety, and Butler would rush for his 2nd TD of the afternoon to mercifully end the contest, 43-23 PSU.


-Hakcenberg was sacked 5 times but threw for 326 yards and 4TD
-Freshman Justin Butler ran for 72 yards on 15 carries.
-Allen Robinson caught 9 balls for 118 yards and 2TDs
-DT Kyle Baublitz and DE Deion Barnes combined for 5 sacks.


Next up.... Michigan State 

Making a Name For Himself



New to the AALoA, Head Coach Denham has his Alabama Crimson Tide off to an impressive 2-0 start with victories over two user opponents.  A balanced attacked on offense featuring two QB's and a stifling defense have the #1 team in the country as early favorites to make it to the National Title game.  That defense was on display this week as the Tide held Illinois to 153 total yards on offense (-3 rushing) and forced 5 turnovers) en route to a 31-0 victory.

Lions Roaring Early



Happy Valley is very happy right now as the Nittany Lions are off to a fast 2-0 start following this week's win over in-state foe Temple.  QB Christian Hackenberg, the pre-season First Team All-American QB, is off to a hot sophomore year start as his 326 yards and 4 TD helped lead Penn State to the 43-23 victory.  Hackenberg will get another test next week when Penn State travels to East Lansing to face Michigan State.

Slipping Away



We are only two weeks in but Coach Gruden can already see his team's season slipping away.  After a grueling 24-21 loss to Ohio State in Week 1, the Bruins played a sloppy game in Washington and got blown out.  The Bruins trailed 28-7 at the half and loss 38-14 as they gave 313 yards rushing to the Huskies.  QB Brett Hundley did pass for 394 yards but his 7 picks thrown would have been too much for any team to overcome.  There is still a lot of season left but things are not starting the way the Bruins would have hoped so Coach Gruden is going to have to find a way to turn things around.

LOL it will be funny when I get fired this offseason. Should be interesting.

illmatic_216 wrote:Maybe I am just behind the 8 ball here, but I found out the hard way last night that there is a limit on your formation subs of 50. After playing Steel and Zach, I went to the internet to find some defensive tips since defense is total trash in this game. I added some plays and was doing formation subs when it said I had reached my limit. So now I gotta reset my subs and just add the more essential ones.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there is a counter in the corner of the screen that shows how many formation subs you have remaining (It starts at 50/50).

Steel Pitt wrote:

illmatic_216 wrote:Maybe I am just behind the 8 ball here, but I found out the hard way last night that there is a limit on your formation subs of 50. After playing Steel and Zach, I went to the internet to find some defensive tips since defense is total trash in this game. I added some plays and was doing formation subs when it said I had reached my limit. So now I gotta reset my subs and just add the more essential ones.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there is a counter in the corner of the screen that shows how many formation subs you have remaining (It starts at 50/50).

Also, the counter does not reset in the offseason. So in each new season, you have to reset it and start from 50 because it's still counting players not on your roster somehow.

the_EDJ wrote:

Steel Pitt wrote:

illmatic_216 wrote:Maybe I am just behind the 8 ball here, but I found out the hard way last night that there is a limit on your formation subs of 50. After playing Steel and Zach, I went to the internet to find some defensive tips since defense is total trash in this game. I added some plays and was doing formation subs when it said I had reached my limit. So now I gotta reset my subs and just add the more essential ones.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there is a counter in the corner of the screen that shows how many formation subs you have remaining (It starts at 50/50).

Also, the counter does not reset in the offseason. So in each new season, you have to reset it and start from 50 because it's still counting players not on your roster somehow.

I never even noticed that counter. I made a bunch of kinda pointless subs, like on all my special teams, so I went back to reverse them manually and you can, but it still uses up one of the 50 moves.

illmatic_216 wrote:

the_EDJ wrote:

Steel Pitt wrote:

illmatic_216 wrote:Maybe I am just behind the 8 ball here, but I found out the hard way last night that there is a limit on your formation subs of 50. After playing Steel and Zach, I went to the internet to find some defensive tips since defense is total trash in this game. I added some plays and was doing formation subs when it said I had reached my limit. So now I gotta reset my subs and just add the more essential ones.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there is a counter in the corner of the screen that shows how many formation subs you have remaining (It starts at 50/50).

Also, the counter does not reset in the offseason. So in each new season, you have to reset it and start from 50 because it's still counting players not on your roster somehow.

I never even noticed that counter. I made a bunch of kinda pointless subs, like on all my special teams, so I went back to reverse them manually and you can, but it still uses up one of the 50 moves.

Like EDJ said, you basically have to reset the subs each off-season because it will count changes to players that have graduated, etc even though they are no longer on the team.

Ohio state jumps out 21-0 over Utah in the first quarter, then subs in their punter for a freshman kicker, and the game freezes.. Of course, I mean why should I have an easy win over the comp..It didn't completely freeze, but became extremely slow choppy and unplayable...

I start over and same thing happens right after the opening kickoff...

Extremely aggravated I start a 3rd time, and it's better but still very slow, especially after anyone scores a TD... I had to wait like 30-60 seconds after each TD to get the play call screen to come up.. And of course I open up the 3rd game by throwing a pick..

Anyway they gave me a game this time but the Buckeyes prevail 37-20 over Utah.. Just wanted to explain in case anyone wondered why I had 37 restarts...

Nebraska overcomes eye sores to thoroughly defeat Boise State. Boise's defense is very sound, but the blue jerseys on blue turf combination made it incredibly difficult to read defenders on the field.  Tommy Armstrong was really, really good with some big time pass plays outside of having to continuously check down to due to great coverage.  If Boise State had a decent QB, the game could've ended differently. But their scrambler was scared to throw and took off almost immediately each time they wanted to pass.

Final Score
 38
 6

The Hokies beat Mizzous 23-20 on a game winning Field Goal, GG Mustard.